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JAG is an acronym for the Judge Advocate General, which is the judicial system of the military.
Catherine Bell

Judge, Military, System

Corporate partners help UNICEF fund our programmes for children, advocate with us on their behalf, or facilitate our work through logistical, technical, research or supply support.
Carol Bellamy

Work, Children, Help

My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism.
Patricia Ireland

Women, Children, Decision

I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of the Everglades, protection of the parks and the creation of monuments.
Bruce Babbitt

Saying, Country, Opinion

For years, I never knowingly went on a holiday. When I travelled, it was for work. Now I am a huge advocate, particularly to places which have amazing wildlife, such as Antarctica, India and Patagonia.
Miranda Richardson

Work, Amazing, Holiday

I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling.
Henry Mayhew

Evening, Principles, Habit

I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them.
Mark Shields

Effort, Himself, Interested

As a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment, and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act.
Sue Kelly

Medical, Act, Patient

To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice, and to seek a stable basis for the existence all peoples, equally, and free of threats.
Hideki Tojo

Freedom, Respect, Free

I grew up hunting with shotguns and rifles, and we had a gun in every corner of the living room. I'm not a gun advocate, but that's the way I grew up.
Anson Mount

Living, Gun, Room

It is quite true - in fact, obvious on the surface - that the vast majority of dramatic shows and comedies, as well, advocate a liberal and humanistic and relativistic lifestyle and concept.
Pat Boone

True, Fact, Quite

It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment.
Jesse Helms

May, United, Surprise

It's not really that I've been an advocate for hearing aids for a long time, it's just that I've been losing my hearing for a long time! So it's actually very important for me because I'm actually hearing impaired and I simply want to hear better!
Leslie Nielsen

Time, Important, Long

I had a dual role: designer and advocate.
Michael Arad

Role, Designer, Dual

I have always been an advocate and was, in my last job at M&S, a supporter of the Al Gore dictum that a sustainable business can be a profitable business. We were the first sizeable company in the U.K. to prove that was the case.
Stuart Rose

Business, Job, Last

I'm done with my job. It was my job to be the advocate and spokesman for the President of the United States.
Scott McClellan

Job, Done, President

We can still find middle ground, truly secure our borders, deal with those already here and address our labor needs. But those who advocate giving current illegal aliens and future guest workers a special path to citizenship must compromise.
John Shadegg

Future, Giving, Find

I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.
Charles Olson

Though I'm vegan and advocate that others eat a plant-based diet, I know that many people aren't quite ready to take that step in whole.
Kathy Freston

Diet, Others, Whole

Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate.
David Chalmers

Down, Try, Point

I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum.
Karen Duffy

Education, Health, Women

I love being an advocate for women as we get older so that we can feel comfortable with ourselves. It's all about being healthy for me now.
Andie MacDowell

Love, Women, Older

During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations.
George William Norris

Life, War, Between

I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate.
Benjamin F. Wade

Floor, Unpopular, Sentiments

Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?
Dorothy Thompson

Men, Home, Nations

The night before, go over your schedule and see what you're going to do and what the purpose of what you're doing is. I advocate having a two-column schedule. On the left, put down all your appointments and phone calls. On the right, put down what the purpose is.
Robert Pozen

Night, Down, Before

It's kind of the yin and yang that fascinate me. That for all the evil men do, there are also people who work obnoxiously long hours and sacrifice their personal lives because it is a calling - if they don't keep our streets safe, if they aren't there to advocate for and save beaten women and children and murder victims, who will?
Lisa Gardner

Work, Women, Men

I don't think it's any secret I've never been an advocate for the Affordable Care Act.
Brian Sandoval

Care, Secret, Act

In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.
John Burns

Work, Men, Courage

I'm an advocate of music in schools. It's important to me that music is in as many schools as possible across this country and across the world. I think that it's a lost art form because kids aren't as exposed to it as maybe they used to be, or should be. I was exposed heavily to jazz and that's why I love it.
Chrisette Michele

Love, Music, Art

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